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Information about Archives Awareness Week events are below. All events are free, but registration is required in advance! Monday, November 17, 2025 AABC Trivia Quest! 35 Years of Membership Memories
We invite all current AABC members to participate in this online trivia event over lunch as we quiz your knowledge about archives and the AABC including organizational milestones, events, and activities from the past 35 years! Hint: a review of the AABC website and the resources, newsletters, publications etc might give you a leg up on your fellow competitors. You can play by phone or computer. Instructions on how to participate will be sent out to members the morning of November 17 once the RSVP deadline closes. Prizes include:
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Roundtea: "School Archives: Behind the Desk"
Join us to learn about the work happening behind the scenes in the archives held at Crofton House School (est 1898) and Victoria High School (est 1876). Both schools are gearing up to celebrate milestone anniversaries in the coming year and this creates exciting opportunities for showcasing the school archives and the enduring work being undertaken by staff and alumni volunteers maintaining these collections. Speakers: Manda Haligowski, Archivist, Crofton House School; Annie Boldt and Linda Baker, Victoria High School Archives Did you know... Victoria High School was founded in 1876 in Victoria, BC and is the oldest public high school west of Manitoba, on Central School grounds. The Vic High Archives & Museum was founded in 1975, the same year the Vic High Alumni Association got its start planning for the school’s 100th anniversary. In addition to funding equipment and archival supplies and managing the Archives, Alumni volunteers connect alumni via newsletters, website, and milestone reunions, and raise funds for student scholarships, bursaries, amenities, and equipment for the school. Archives volunteers manage artifacts and documents dating from the late 1800s and school yearbooks dating from 1905, create rotating displays around the school, work with student volunteers, conduct research, and welcome visitors. Crofton House School, located in Vancouver, was established in 1898 and has been delivering girl-centred education for over 125 years. The archival collection has flourished over the years, matching the growth of the school and includes institutional records and private records acquired from alumni. Holdings include official records documenting the operations of Crofton House School from its founding in 1898 up until the present day including minutes, correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, photographs, published material, architectural plans and audio recordings. Wednesday, November 19, 2025 Webinar: "Seacans and Trailers and Records….Oh My!"
Do you find yourself faced with the challenges of using a unconventional storage space like a shipping container (Seacan) or a repurposed trailer to store your records? We invite you to learn about how to make the best of this space - including a review of storage best practices, what type of pests to look out for, how to cost-effectively retrofit a Seacan with shelving, and other supplies/equipment that should be considered. Speakers: Courtney King, YCA Community Archivist; Tamis Cochrane, Taku River Tlingit First Nation Thursday, November 20, 2025 Film Screening: "Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again"
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Nechako is a crucial documentary from Lyana Patrick that follows two Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. When the Kenney Dam was built in the 1950s, it diverted 70 percent of the Nechako River into an artificial reservoir, severely impacting the lives of local Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations. What followed were decades of resistance, including legal actions against the Canadian federal and provincial governments and Rio Tinto Alcan, a subsidiary of a global mining conglomerate. Nechako follows the people fighting today to restore a river and a way of life: Nations going up against industry, community leaders advocating for their people, Elders documenting their histories and community members living off the land. An urgent call to action, Patrick’s film asks what survival looks like when it serves everyone, in a story 70 years in the making—a story of hope and resistance against all odds, amidst large-scale environmental destruction and despite the will of powerful institutions. Lyana Patrick will join us online after the film to talk about it and her role working with Indigenous communities in BC and how archival records and building relationships were part of her filmmaking process. Lyana Patrick is an award-winning, Vancouver-based director, writer and researcher from the Stellat’en First Nation. Committed to elevating Indigenous stories, she studied film at the Native Voices Program, University of Washington. Her acclaimed short films A Place to Belong and The Train Station have been showcased at prestigious festivals like Hot Docs, DOC NYC and the Vancouver International Film Festival, earning her recognition for her powerful, community-centred storytelling.This film is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films and Experimental Forest Films.
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Friday, November 21, 2025 Roundtea: "5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment: “Implementing an Online Museum and Archives”
Achieving a major milestone - join us to learn more about the multi-year process that the 5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment, a small, volunteer run museum and archives located on Vancouver Island, went through in implementing a system to provide online access to their collection. This presentation will also include a "live" demonstration of the user view of their software system with a focus on how users can search for items of interest. Speaker: Vic Skaarup, 5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment Museum and Archives Did you know... The 5th (BC) Artillery Regiment Museum commemorates the Regiment’s role in the coastal defence of Victoria dating back to 1843 and of the role of coastal artillery on the Canadian Pacific Coast. In 1956, during the Cold War and with the development of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, the role of coastal artillery became redundant and the Regiment’s role converted to field artillery and exhibits about the role played by our soldiers on foreign and domestic operations since the Second World War. |
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